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Monday: Track Matching

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Luke sings wellThere’s not necessarily a definitive reason why two tracks might match. Sometimes you might want to hear two tracks side by side because of the ways they’re different. Sometimes it’s the ways they’re the same. The most interesting pairs have both similarities and differences that create a tension between the songs.

The two songs that I’m putting next to each other today have a similar attitude, some sonic similarities, but different tempos, and where one builds in changes throughout, the other experiences a sudden shift.

Baltimore’s Lands & Peoples has a proclivity towards reverb and vintagey sounds that we’ve seen a lot of in the past several years, but handles these elements lightly, allowing project manager Caleb Moore to match songs to the world those textures evoke. “Isabella” is a slow number, which completely sold me at the change it undergoes in its middle.

Lands & Peoples - Isabella mp3

If you haven’t yet heard Here We Go Magic (touring with Grizzly Bear this summer), I’ll leave it to you to look into the backstory. The song “Everything’s Big” exists in a world very similar to the Lands & Peoples song, but is a little more restless from the beginning. I think a saloon/Gainsbourg piano can sell me on just about any song.

Here We Go Magic - Everything’s Big mp3

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